单选题
Questions 27—30 are based on the dialogue. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 27—30.
单选题 Why does the woman say she has mixed feelings?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[听力原文]27-30 M: Hi, Claire. How does it feel to be back on campus? W: Gee, Hi, well, to tell you the truth, I have mixed feelings. M: Oh, why? W: I had this great summer job that I really hated to leave. I worked at the wild life research center in Maryland. M: That makes sense for a genetics major. What did you do? Clean the cages? W: This is a wildlife center, not a zoo. This place breeds endangered species and tries to prepare them for life in the wild. M: You mean the endangered species like the tiger and the panda? W: Well, endangered species, yes. But not tigers or pandas. I worked with whooping cranes and sandhill cranes. I taught the baby crane how to eat and drink, and I helped the vets to give medical check-ups. M: I can see it was hard to leave that job. But how did you teach a bird how to eat and drink? W: We covered ourselves up with cloth and used puppets made out of stuffed cranes to show the baby chicks what to do. Then the chicks copied what the puppets did. M: Cloth? Puppets? Sounds like fun. W: It was. The cloth and puppets am the key tools. We all covered ourselves up, the scientists, the vets, the junior staff, everybody. You see, baby cranes will become attached to their caretakers. M: So if the caretaker is a person, the crane will stay in places where people are. W: Yeah. And their chances for survival aren't very good. But by covering ourselves and using cloth and puppets the chicks are more likely to seek out other birds rather than people. And their transition to the wild has a better chance of being successful. M: A chance of being successful? Hasn't this been done before? W: It's been done with sandhill cranes and everyone is optimistic about its working with whooping cranes too. M: If this works, it should increase the number of cranes in the wild. W: Yeah. It's exciting, isn't it? 题目问“为什么这个女人说她感情复杂?”可以从她对暑期工作的态度来判断,她说“I had this great summer job that I really hated to leave.”,所以说她还没准备好回校。
单选题 What was the woman's job?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据“I worked at the wild life research center in Maryland.”以及后面的“This place breeds endangered species and tries to prepare them for life in the wild.”和“I taught the baby crane how to eat and drink,”判断答案是C。
单选题 Why does the man mention tigers and pandas?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】此题既要根据全文内容,又要根据常识进行综合判断。
单选题 Why do the staff members cover themselves with cloth as they work?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】如果以为喂养、照料动物就是为了培养他们对人类的感情就错了,实际上,这个野生动物保护中心的目的是让濒临灭绝的动物有能力在野外更好地生存。如果理解了这个意思,此题就能做对。